Police Identify the Man Fatally Shot During a Bank Robbery as a Walrus and the Carpenter Sous Chef

The restaurant will be closed tonight.

The Walrus and the Carpenter will be closed tonight after a sad and strange revelation today. According to theSeattle Times, Seattle police have identified the man shot and killed during an alleged attempted bank robbery as Cody Spafford, 26, a sous chef at the Ballard restaurant.

Here's the original Times story on the April 3 robbery and the shooting itself; Spafford was apparently armed with a knife when police caught up with him. Eater has some comments from some of Spafford's coworkers at Walrus.

UPDATE: I heard from Renee Erickson and a few other members of the Walrus team asking if I'd swap the Seattle PD photo for one of Spafford as she and her crew knew him (as of tonight it's also her Facebook profile photo). Seems like a day to respect such a request. Hence the new photo above.